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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress who was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, and has won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.
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Jamie Lee Curtis - news / articles
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Jamie Lee impersonated Tony Curtis during funeral speech -
24 October 2010
-Jamie Lee Curtis lightened the mood as she honoured her late father Tony Curtis at his memorial service earlier this month (Oct10) by imitating his famous deep voice.-
-The Some Like It Hot star passed away on 29 September (10) after suffering a cardiac arrest and more t
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Schwarzenegger to honour True Lies co-star Curtis -
17 April 2009
-Arnold Schwarzenegger will recognise the charitable contributions of his close friend and True Lies co-star Jamie Lee Curtis when he presents her with an award in May (09).-
-The actor-turned-California governor played Curtis' secret agent husband in the 1994 action movi
Jamie Lee Curtis - what members say
review by mdridley from North Yorkshire, England
True Lies 10 December 2007
review by danieljparsons from Ashford
An acceptable sequel 11 May 2010
review by A customer from scotland
brilliant 31 March 2004
Jamie Lee Curtis - filmography
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You Again
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: Andy Fickman
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
You Again, the non-stop laugh fest, is pure fun that features an all-star cast with comedy pedigrees - including Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver and the always outrageous Betty White. For Marnie (Bell), high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when ..read more »
 
61%
from 5,939 members
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Piper Perabo, Manolo Cardona, Eugenio Derbez
Director: Raja Gosnell
Certificate: 
Chloe, a diamond-clad, bootie wearing Beverly Hills Chihuahua enjoys her luxurious lifestyle so much, she hardly notices Papi, a hilarious Chihuahua who happens to be crazy for Chloe. But when the most pampered pooch gets lost in Mexico with only a street-wise German Shepherd to help her find her ..read more »
66%
from 6,101 members
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Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of t...
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Malek Akkad, John Carpenter, Lilyan Chauvin
Director: Jeff McQueen
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Gorehounds will love GOING TO PIECES, a documentary filled with the best scenes in slasher film history. From essential classics like PSYCHO to newer films like CABIN FEVER, this movie features interviews with horror's biggest names like Wes Craven and Rob Zombie. With clips featuring frightening ..read more »
59%
from 1,897 member
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Christmas With The Kranks
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Joe Roth
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After faithfully and happily celebrating Christmas their entire lives, and with their daughter Blair in Peru to serve a stint in the Peace Corps, Luther and Nora Krank are facing the prospect of a very lonely holiday. One blustery Chicago night, Luther glances longingly at an alluring poster in a ..read more »
55%
from 10,405 members
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Freaky Friday
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon
Director: Mark Waters
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This classic story of mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and daughter (Lindsay Lohan) swapping bodies is a remake of the 1976 film starring the young Jodie Foster. Here, Tess Coleman (Curtis) is a widowed psychiatrist juggling her job and family while planning her second marriage. She's getting no help from ..read more »
63%
from 22,571 members
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The Tailor of Panama
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Boorman
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ..read more »
56%
from 2,165 members
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Drowning Mona
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Danny De Vito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell
Director: Nick Gomez
Certificate: 
Mona Dearly is an unpopular woman who dies driving off a cliff after the brakes have failed. The local police chief suspects foul play and tries to contain the whole town...
48%
from 411 members
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Virus
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland
Director: John Bruno
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A Russian science ship in the South Pacific is attempting to line up its satellite dish with a Russian space station. An alien energy mass envelops the space station and invades the ship's navigational equipment by way of data transmission.... Some days later the Sea Star tug decides to claim ..read more »
53%
from 3,232 members
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Nicholas' Gift
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alan Bates, Gene Wexler
Director: Robert Markowitz
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It's 1994, and Californian couple Reg and Maggie Green (Alan Bates and Jamie Lee Curtis) have taken their children Nicholas and Eleanor on vacation to Italy. A blissful time for the family turns tragic when, on a dark Sicilian road, Reg tries to flee a gang of carjackers. Gunfire ensues, hitting ..read more »
60%
from 140 members
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Fierce Creatures
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Director: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
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This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English ..read more »
59%
from 4,617 members
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True Lies
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton
Director: James Cameron
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Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman ..read more »
67%
from 26,909 members
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Forever Young
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood
Director: Steve Miner
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Watch now: £2.49
A test pilot (Mel Gibson)loses his true love so he volunteers to become cryogenically frozen for an experiment. Many years later a group of young boys stumble across his frozen capsule and revive him. He befriends the boy's mother and learns that his old sweetheart is still alive. Can they be ..read more »
60%
from 7,633 members
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Blue Steel
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Watch now: £2.49
Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding ..read more »
57%
from 1,327 member
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A Fish Called Wanda - Blu-ray
(1988)
Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline
Director: Charles Crichton
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In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as Crichton's own THE ..read more »
73%
from 10 members
Not available for rental
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A Fish Called Wanda
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline
Director: Charles Crichton
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In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as Crichton's own THE ..read more »
69%
from 24,165 members
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Perfect
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marilu Henner
Director: James Bridges
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John Travolta stars as a Rolling Stone reporter who travels to Los Angeles to investigate a drug case and decides to write an expose of the health-club craze of the 1980s. Reporter Adam Lawrence (Travolta) sets out to trash the fitness craze as just a replacement of the shallow singles bar scene of ..read more »
53%
from 473 members
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Grandview U.S.A.
(1984)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" ..read more »
63%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Love Letters
(1984)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett
Director: Amy Holden Jones
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A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.
38%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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Trading Places
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Landis
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As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a blue-nosed employee (Dan Akroyd) of the brokerage are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. ..read more »
72%
from 21,423 members
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Trading Places - HD
(1983)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameche
Director: John Landis
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As the result of a bet between two wealthy commodities traders, the lifestyles of a street hustler (Eddie Murphy) and a successful stockbroker (Dan Akroyd) are reversed. The innocent victims of the bet scramble to make it in their new foreign environments, with hysterical results. Once they ..read more »
80%
from 117 members
Currently unavailable
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Halloween 2
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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Watch now: £2.49
Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a ..read more »
60%
from 4,244 members
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Road Games
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach
Director: Richard Franklin
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Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis-..read more »
60%
from 256 members
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Prom Night
(1980)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens
Director: Paul Lynch
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When an innocent game of 'Murder' results in the accidental death of a young girl, the remaining children involved vow never to tell anyone what happened. Seven years pass and the children are now teenagers, preparing for their Senior Prom. Celebrations are cast aside, however, when each person ..read more »
48%
from 417 members
Not available for rental
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Terror Train
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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It's New Year's Eve and the college boys of Sigma Phi fraternity have invited friends to a masquerade ball aboard a chartered train. But while they provide the food, booze and music, a knife-wielding psycho, intent on revenge for a sick joke four years earlier, provides the deadly entertainment...
43%
from 584 members
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The Fog - HD
(1979)
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realise they are ..read more »
64%
from 325 members
Not currently released
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The Fog - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as ..read more »
65%
from 799 members
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The Fog
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as ..read more »
63%
from 9,597 members
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Halloween
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Carpenter
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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
70%
from 13,148 members
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Charlie's Angels - Series 3
(6 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith
Director: Bob Kelljan, Paul Stanley, Lawrence Doheny
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One of the most successful TV shows of all time, CHARLIE'S ANGELS was an irresistible mixture of sexy camp and action, and featured an unforgettable trio of tough, lovely ladies: Kris, (Cheryl Ladd), Sabrina (Kate Jackson), and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith). Formerly mere police officers, the girls were ..read more »
73%
from 37 members
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Halloween - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, Halloween is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, Halloween takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
74%
from 1,216 member
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Jamie Lee Curtis facts
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...comic in a completely unintentional way. Tom Arnold is amusing but too obvious, Jamie Lee Curtis and Bill Paxton each have their moments, but humour clearly isn't Cameron's str...
